The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-03-30


Saratoga, reports from Port Spain, Trina.
dad, that while at San Tornado anchorage,
February 24, q small boat was swamped
OFF La Brae Point, and the paymaster's
clerk, ~apothecary, armorer and coxswain,
lost their lives.
1t is learned, on good authority that Sec
rctary Manning's successor will not be APP.
pointed before April 1, the date upon which
Mr.. Manning's resignation takes effect. The
belief still prevails that Assistant Secretary
Fairchild viii receive the appointment.
A special from Bessemer, Mich, states
that Il clearinghouse, owned by the Colby
Iron Company, was burned early Wedues.
day morning. Thu bodies of 10 persons
burned to death have been taken out. Sev-
cral others, who were badly burned, are
expected to die.
The jury in the trial of ex-Aldcrmau
Cleary, II of the "boodlc Aldermen
have disagreed and have been discharged.
1t is said they stood six to six. Clearly was
released III $40 900 bail, the amount aud
bondsmcn being the same rs before the
trial.
Senator Cullom says that Mrs. Cullom's
enthusiasm for the Interstate
bill was simply intense until she learned by
the mcrcSt accident That when it became q
law she would not be able to ride on passes
any more. After that she turned Il regular
somCrsault and became one of the leaders
of the opposition.
Mr.. Gladstonc's review of the last part
of the Grcvillc Memoirs, which is expected
to set Mr.. Grcyillc right on the subject of
Gladstonc's relations with Lord Palmerston,
will be published in the English Historical
-Ndgdstno, not in the Nineteenth Century,
rs ~nOunCe
Sir Charles Dixie retains much of his
popularity in Chelsea. He has adopted OK.
trcmc Radical views and fratcrnizes with
the humblcst people, being ever ready to
aidthGm with his p%Icthoric purse. 1t is OK.
pcctcd that he will be returned to Parlia-
mcnt at the first opportunity.
Mayor Hewitt will veto, in the presumed
interest of economy, the resolution adopted
by the Aldermen providing for cngrossing
and framing the resolutions adopted by the
board in 1888 on the death of Peter Cooper.
They arc deliberately cngrosscd and con
tanned i'll Il frame seven feet by six.
Another of the well known beauties of
the London social world is about to forsakc
the drawing room-though not for the stage
Mrs. Wheeler, so well known rs the con-
temporary of the Jersey Lily, both in
beauty and popularity, being about to enter
Il dress makers establishment as one Of the
WORKING partners.
Walter Chisolm and Thomas Cobb, stu
dents in the Georgia University, tried to
fight Il duel at Sand Bar Ferry, but were
arrested before they got there. The affair
originated in n charge by q brother of
Thomas that Chisolm had received assist.
ncc in the examination room. No fur
thcr trouble is anticipated.
AT Troy, n. Y, the Grand Central The.
atrc, corner of Broadway and Fourth
streets, was burned at > o'clock this morn.
ing. The loss is Sill 900; insurance SIS. 600.
The department had Just responded to an
alarm Of fire on the dock ut j.. Ondcrkirk's
rag ~storcnousc, which was burned out.
causing n loss of about s. 1000.
1t is stated ON good authority that the
option will remain open TO the Ives. Stay
ncr syndicate for the control Of the Balti.
more and Ohio railroad until April /, Gar
rcti, it is said, cleared 5000, 600 out of the
Sully syndicate failure, and II is also stated
that the Garrett interest has purchased all
the stock of the Jonhs Hopkins University.
One of the ladies in the burning hotel at
Bullalo escaped from the building with
nothing but her presence of mind. AS she
diunI propose to make Il spectacle of her.
sell IN such Il gauHy covering, she Dor
rowcd Il pair OF trousers from one man
and AN ovcrcoat from another, and skipped
through Che crowd to Il place where she
could get some buds.
Mr.. Blaine has written to n friend in
New York that he has been working harder
IN The last two months than ut any period
of his life. He has been engaged i'm the re.
vision OF his speeches and papers for publ
cation. He proposes to take n rest next
month and n run out to the Indian Terri,
tory to pay Il visit TO his daughter, Mrs.
Coppingcr.
At Newark, Ohio, jacob Brcnd died
from the effects Of a pan of scalding water
thrown upon him by his wife on Sunday
last. The couple had frequently Quarrclcd,
and on this occasion, Mrs. Brcnd threw n
pan oi boiling water in his face. She kept
everybody out of the house after the scald.
ing, but since his death, she has become a
ravlGg maniac.
The only reason why Speaker Carlisle
h~CSItatcS over the acceptance of the vacant
Treasury po:tfolio is said by a leading cor.
respondent to be his fear that he cannot
stand the expense which its occupancy
would involve in social way. There NAV.
OF course, be something Of truth in the
statement, but it is thought that Mr.. Car.
liSlc has other reasons for his hcsitancy-
one beng that the position has not been
offered to him.
William Duane Morgan, who died at
washington, "a, several days ago, was n
grandson of William Duane, who edited
JciIcrsom's Philadelphia organ, the 1urora.
Ills patcinal grandfather, Colonel George
Morgan, was commissioned an Indian Agent
by John Hancock, us President of the Con
tlncntn' Congress. The deceased edited the
Washington Democratic journal, orr C0un.
hH; the New Lisbon, Ohio, Patriot, and
the Newark, Ohio, Adr0cdto.
President Cleveland was asked on the
isth by, Mr.. Soteldo, the Minister from
venezuela, why he was not cclebrting the
natal day, and said: Vanity, vanity, it is
all vanity. If a man really feels that his
birth was a stroke Of luck to him, let him
rejoice by all means; but | don't thinks he
has any right to disturb the town about il
and | don't think ii would be modest to ask
all the rest Of the world TO rejoice in an
event Which had SO little interest for them"
The knights of Labor in North Carolina
are greatly excited over the arrest of G.. +.